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yes i know the new forum layout doesnt support polling. so vote by posting.
i am unable to decide on my own. thats why the poll.
i like irssi's simplicity and ready to use themes and scripts.
one the other hand weechat is highly configurable and u can make your own themes etc. plus u get a namelist without having a 2nd window
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I use weechat - although I suppose I'm not the best for discussions of which is greater than which, since I've never used irssi.
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And I'm the opposite of Cerebral.
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I personally prefer irssi. I tried weechat for a day recently and ultimately went right back to irssi (not a knock on weechat, I just like irssi better).
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
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The reason I like weechat is that it has "sane defaults". Sure irssi is customizable to all hell, but by default it's a bit lame. And you have to look all over the place for scripts to do some fairly typical things (i.e. colorize nicks). weechat, with no config, is totally usable to me.
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irssi, never tried weechat
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weechat here when no xchat is possible. like the splitted view. but i'm still looking for a switch in its rc file to disable all the "joins/leaves" messages.
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irssi......
Mr Green
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irssi but looking at weechat
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
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Well, perhaps weechat's nicklist is better but the lack of one (The script that gives one is only half decent, I dont use it) hasn't bothered me as much as it did when I initially switched to console IRC client and IRSSIs script library is great and does most everything I want it to.
Also, every time I've used weechat I have not been able to /connect to other servers other than the default one. It just says it can't be reached and that the command could not complete or something. It won't work on arch or my ubuntu machine (Which sits in a cabinet and pretty much just runs IRSSI in a screen and MPD). I imagine it is just a stupid mistake on my part, but I couldn't figure out why I couldn't /connect so I just keep with IRSSI which treats me well enough so that I don't stress over weechat. Looks nice, but I'm too dumb for it so I vote IRSSI
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weechat here when no xchat is possible. like the splitted view. but i'm still looking for a switch in its rc file to disable all the "joins/leaves" messages.
First off you shouldn't be editing the RC file directly. weechat has a comprehensive config interface, and resaves itself when you exit.
IIRC "/ignore * join" and "/ignore * part" will do what you want.
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Also, every time I've used weechat I have not been able to /connect to other servers other than the default one.
You need to actually add the server before you can connect to it. Try "/help server" for information on adding new server info.
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I like weechat because writing a plugin is something they let me do in almost any dynamic language.
Including perl if you really need it.
Though, weechat does need built in theme support.
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If you have any bug requests and/or feature reports feel free to /j #weechat @ freenode. Btw, WeeChat will be refactored soon, so don't expect fancy features until autumn. SPOILER: then phracture will have to split weechat into 3 (or even more) packages
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SPOILER: then phracture will have to split weechat into 3 (or even more) packages
GTK, QT, curses?
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Qt is unlikely this year, so i think there will be: core, curses-gui, gtk-gui
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Irssi. Weechat has CPU usage problems.
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Though, weechat does need built in theme support.
/me points at Stalwart
http://weechat.flashtux.org/scripts/theme.py
Irssi. Weechat has CPU usage problems.
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
3870 griff 15 0 32048 25144 7984 S 0.0 3.2 30:16.55 | `- weechat-curses
That's been running like that for around 15 days now.
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Irssi. Weechat has CPU usage problems.
Bullshit. I'm running it for months on my pentium-mmx 166MHz - it uses ~2% cpu and ~30Mb memory. CPU usage can be caused by bad scripts (there's memleak problem with some scripts).
2phrakture:
theme.py needs updating - several new look_ options were introduced since i wrote this script
In future (after gui/core split) curses ui will be improved to allow free formatting for bars
2weechat-newbies:
You should read at least QuickStart Guide - it's available in several languages (anyone to contribute more translations?) and contains answers to most frequent usage questions!
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wounded wrote:Also, every time I've used weechat I have not been able to /connect to other servers other than the default one.
You need to actually add the server before you can connect to it. Try "/help server" for information on adding new server info.
oh boy, I feel incredibly lame right now! Ok, I'm using it now and looking through its website. Thanks :)
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Well I HAVE been using irssi+screen....... after reading through this looking alot harder at weechat
PLEASE read and try to FIX/FILE BUGS instead of assuming other have/will.
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What's hard exactly?
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does anyone know of way to remove those arrows in /jins/parts without disabling viewing joins/parts? tried making them black as black is the bg but somehow it didnt work
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Only by patching source code at the moment. As i mentioned - all bells&whistles will be after Great GUI Split
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